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Chapter Twelve: Friends

During the rest of the morning, in the Gryffindor Common Room Lily, Keely, and Meg told the boys what they did. After they finished, James said, “But why would you help me and Sirius? I thought you hated us.”
“I actually wanted to let you guys make fools of yourselves but Lily talked me out of it. She said something about fighting fires or something.”
“If you fight fire with fire, then you get a bigger fire.” said Lily, smiling.
James smiled at her and said, “Thanks.” He and Lily smiled at each other for a moment until they heard stifled laughter and looked around to see Keely, Remus, Meg, Peter, and Sirius looking as if they wanted to burst out with laughter.
“What’s up with you guys?” asked Lily.
“Is this the moment?” asked Keely.
“What do you mean?” asked James.
“Is this the beginning of a beautiful-and maybe nauseating- relationship?” asked Sirius.
“Oh, shut up.” James and Lily said at the same time which made Sirius, Remus, Keely, Peter, and Meg burst out with laughter, soon James and Lily joined in with the laughter. It went on for several minutes until Sirius said, “Lunch has probably started, anyone hungry?”
He, Remus, Keely, Peter, and Meg got up and left the common room.
“Are you guys coming?” asked Meg before going through the door. Lily got up but James grabbed her arm and said, “We’ll be coming in a minute. I just want to tell Lily something.”
“Okay, see you in the Great Hall.”
When Meg shut the door, Lily looked at James and said, “What is it you want to tell me, James?”
“Thanks for what you girls did.” said James, “It would have been humiliating to go through that whole Love Potion thing. Too bad those girls know full well that Remus, Sirius, and I don’t want anything to do with them.”
“No one does really.” said Lily, “So is that it? Can we go down to the Great Hall then?”
“That’s not it, there’s one more thing.” said James, he suddenly looked as if the thing he was about to say was going to be too painful for him, “I-I’m s-s-sorry for that trick Sirius and I played on S-Snape.”
“Oh, I’m glad to hear that. Thank you James.” said Lily.
“Please just don’t tell Sirius I said that.” said James.
“I would never.” said Lily, and she and James walked over to the door he opened the door for her and said jokingly, “Ladies first.”
“Why, thank you kind sir.” said Lily, also joking as she left the Common Room first followed by James and they walked down the corridor together discussing and laughing about the situation at breakfast.